too many variables to determine a significant trend. Much depends on
the balance of the variant, the skills of other players involved, and
how decent a game that I managed to deliver at that point in history.
That said - I think that you're right about the learning curve re:
alliance dynamics and nuances. I have noticed as a GM that repeat
players of my variants have usually improved their performances (or at
least the performances of their assigned country), even when the
variants underwent significant revisions between playtests. This
should be expected, for the same reason that seasoned veterans of
standard often wipe the floor with newbies. They've seen the traps
before (and know how to set some themselves), they know where the
stalemate lines are and where they need to be to break them, etc.
As for variants - it mostly depends on the map. The vast unwashed
masses of variants listed on dipwiki.com or variantbank.org are *not*
even close to balanced. So in that case, it's just luck of the draw
whether you got a favored position or not.
B.
On 5/7/10, community(at)diplomaticcorp.com wrote:
Garry.bledsoe posted in Community. The message was...
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Just a curious question for some of those that have played a bunch of
different games - do you find that you perform better or worse at one or the
other?
My personal experience is that I am TERRIBLE at variants. I seem to perform
much better at the standard games. I just can't place if it is a comfort
level with having played them enough to understand the dynamic of alliances
and their nuances (where I typically haven't played any one variant twice)
or if it is that I tend to play less aggressively or what.
Would love to hear others' thoughts regarding this.
G
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